by Matthew Friedman | Dec 13, 2019 | Commentary
Wednesday, December 11 – or 13 Kislev in the Jewish calendar – felt unbearably surreal. I felt as if a waking nightmare had mobilized my darkest terrors as I traveled home, trapped on one delayed flight after another, to sit shiva for a beloved and respected uncle....
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 6, 2019 | Commentary
I got home from work a little earlier than usual that day, but the sun had already set an hour before. The weekly newspaper office where I worked in Pointe St-Charles had closed early, and the Montreal Metro got me home in record time. The details of that early...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 3, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
Candice Keller and Ron Hood had a moment in the media spotlight last week when they introduced Bill 413 in the Ohio House of Representatives. The proposed legislation is one of the most radical anti-abortion bills ever proposed in the United States. It would not only...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 22, 2019 | Commentary, Satire
Good sense seems to be breaking out all over in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Elizabeth Warren has shown her political acumen and practicality by backing-off from her previously-held Medicare-for-All position this week. Pete Buttigieg, who...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 11, 2019 | Essays
I feel closer to my father in early November than at any other time of the year. It was always then, in late autumn – when the fallen leaves lay in deep mats, or raked into towering piles in the parks and yards of Montreal, following the first killing frosts, and just...
